Fazail Lutfi’s MFA Exhibition - Once Upon A Place...Eye Spied With My Little ‘I’s
Mackenzie Art Gallery from 4th - 14th November 2006 University of Regina, Saskachewan, Canada. Avant-garde, unconventional and cutting-edge in terms of crossover art forms
A native of Maldives, Fazail Lutfi, is recipient several awards for best film and video student in 2000 and 2002. One upon a place…Eyes spied with my little ‘I’s is Fazail’s MFA graduating exhibition – his second - at University of Regina, in Interdisciplinary Studies.
Fazail Lutfi is interested in technology and its influence on society and vice versa. He aims to find the form, the fuse and content together to create a dialogue, often contradicting each other. And to place himself within the complicated, contemporary society. He says, he tries to create a space where the viewer strays from the everybody, the boundaries between reality and fiction break down, and the sense of place and time disrupts. It is a space where the margin between conscious and unconscious dissolves. A moment for reflecting on being human and the boundaries of the self. The time freezes and the imaginations conjures vivid memories from an archaic past mixed with image from a destined future.
His installations primarily work on and by affect, the feeling the objects convey. Primal elements with little or no cultural, historical or spatial connotations. None of the work contains any embedded messages for the viewer to decode, rather it passes a feeling, or even, may be some form of any energy. The viewer is left with the task of completing the work.
Most of the objects he chooses are ordinary, everyday objects. He works deliberately in such a way as to evoke the infinite. The subjects in the video are in a continuous never ending video loop. The framing of the video images mentally extend beyond the edge of the "physical screen". Audio for the installations are mixed surround, in order for the viewer to experience a feeling of vastness enabling the work to continue beyond the edge of the visual elements.
It is an arduous task to find language to describe the most important elements of his. Work – the feeling. For language will root and frame these works within a wider institutional discourse. The viewer will be forced to read it from logical, conditioned conscious.
Avant-garde, unconventional and cutting-edge in terms of crossover art forms - these are the themes that inspire and run through the exhibition. Fazail Lutfi has the talent, and put on a unique show for the pleasure of an arts-hungry audience. He creates something entirely unique in the process.
Fazail Lutfi is interested in technology and its influence on society and vice versa. He aims to find the form, the fuse and content together to create a dialogue, often contradicting each other. And to place himself within the complicated, contemporary society. He says, he tries to create a space where the viewer strays from the everybody, the boundaries between reality and fiction break down, and the sense of place and time disrupts. It is a space where the margin between conscious and unconscious dissolves. A moment for reflecting on being human and the boundaries of the self. The time freezes and the imaginations conjures vivid memories from an archaic past mixed with image from a destined future.
His installations primarily work on and by affect, the feeling the objects convey. Primal elements with little or no cultural, historical or spatial connotations. None of the work contains any embedded messages for the viewer to decode, rather it passes a feeling, or even, may be some form of any energy. The viewer is left with the task of completing the work.
Most of the objects he chooses are ordinary, everyday objects. He works deliberately in such a way as to evoke the infinite. The subjects in the video are in a continuous never ending video loop. The framing of the video images mentally extend beyond the edge of the "physical screen". Audio for the installations are mixed surround, in order for the viewer to experience a feeling of vastness enabling the work to continue beyond the edge of the visual elements.
It is an arduous task to find language to describe the most important elements of his. Work – the feeling. For language will root and frame these works within a wider institutional discourse. The viewer will be forced to read it from logical, conditioned conscious.
Avant-garde, unconventional and cutting-edge in terms of crossover art forms - these are the themes that inspire and run through the exhibition. Fazail Lutfi has the talent, and put on a unique show for the pleasure of an arts-hungry audience. He creates something entirely unique in the process.
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